Operation Purple!

For our last project, Fire Four is reunited and we will be going to Larkspur, CO tomorrow. We are working with Outer Edge Performance, which is an outdoor program, and one of the programs it runs is Operation Purple camp. We have had two weeks of training with the staff at OEP. The training was a lot of working on our skills and how we can be great leaders. We also learned a lot of fun games to play. At OP, we are working at a summer camp for kids whos parents have been deployed. This camp is there to provide a week away from their difficult lives, where the child may be taking on adult responsibilities with one parent gone. We, as AmeriCorps members and OEP staff have come together to be camp counselors for these kids. The first week of camp starts tomorrow- there are three weeks. The kids get to do fun activities, such as white water rafting, biking, horse-back riding, rock climbing and hiking. Then, there is a ten day teen leadership camp, which will be much of the same activities, except that the teens get to do a service project of their own after the camp is through.